S.A. Back in the Day: December 1962

December 3, 2012 |Compiled by Merrisa Brown, mySA.com

What was going on in the Alamo City 50 years ago? Click through to find out.

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The Yule package influx grew, like Topsy — only more so — until it would appear that a lonely postal clerk could get lost in the maze of packages, like a little boy all alone in a forest. Here is clerk Abraham Cruz set to go at the job of sorting. Who could blame him if he has a sinking feeling? Luckily, of course, he has help. Superintendent A.H. Russi maintains a large complement of clerks, handlers and carriers at the Guilbeau station to keep the packages moving, step by step, toward their final destination. The station is the only one in the city that handles incoming parcel post. Hence the magnitude of the operation at Christmastime. Published in the San Antonio Light Dec. 16, 1962.

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The Yule package influx grew, like Topsy — only more so — until it would appear that a lonely postal clerk could get lost in the maze of packages, like a little boy all alone in a forest. Here is clerk Abraham Cruz set to go at the job of sorting. Who could blame him if he has a sinking feeling? Luckily, of course, he has help. Superintendent A.H. Russi maintains a large complement of clerks, handlers and carriers at the Guilbeau station to keep the packages moving, step by step, toward their final destination. The station is the only one in the city that handles incoming parcel post. Hence the magnitude of the operation at Christmastime. Published in the San Antonio Light Dec. 16, 1962.